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Memorial Hospital - Chattanooga
Telemetry Nurse
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What they do
A Telemetry Registered Nurse cares for critically ill patients and monitors patient life-signs, using specialized equipment such as an electrocardiogram. Cares for patients with cardiac and other acute care needs in a hospital or clinical setting. Works under the supervision of a physician as part of a Telemetry Unit nursing team.
$86,127 / year median in Tennessee
+12% projected growth
Job Description
Job Summary and Responsibilities As a Registered Nurse (RN), you will be a pivotal healthcare professional, delivering compassionate, high-quality care that truly impacts our patients' well-being and recovery. Every day, you will leverage your expertise to provide individualized, comprehensive care, making critical assessments, performing skilled procedures, and meticulously implementing patient care plans. You'll collaborate seamlessly within an interdisciplinary team, contributing to a dynamic environment focused on optimal patient outcomes. To be successful in this role, you will possess keen assessment skills, acute critical thinking, and a patient-first mindset, driven by a profound enthusiasm to help others. Your sense of urgency and dedication to excellence in a fast-paced environment will not only support patient recovery but also fuel your own career advancement. Diagnostic and patient monitoring (detection and recognition of acute changes and escalation or concerns/critical results). Administration and monitoring therapeutic interventions and regimens (starting/maintaining intravenous therapies, administering medication per patients' rights, preventing falls and skin breakdown and following policies in relation to safety measures). Effective management of rapidly changing situations (identifying, assessing and anticipating needs). Organization and work rule competencies (prioritizing, coordination and meeting multiple patient needs in a timely manner). Helping Role (consistently contribute to a healing environment, providing patient comfort and support for human dignity, serving as a patient advocate and building and maintaining a therapeutic environment. Teaching-Coaching Function (assess and evaluates the patient's readiness and ability to learn, effectively explains a patient's condition and their interpretation of his or her illness. Job Requirements Required Associate Of Nursing Nursing or Equivalent, upon hire and